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One Park Place site found near the Westferry circus has been secured by the Canary Wharf Group for £17.5m. After several years of pursuit, Canary Wharf Group was able to pick up the lease from the receivers.

Back in 2007 the property was originally purchased by Bernard McNamara’s Grattan Propertied for £55m. At that that the Tower Hamlets Council granted the group approval of a planning application that outlined a 45 storey shared offices building that would also contain retail and restaurants.

However, the plan never became a reality as McNamara announced to the Irish media that he had debts that had accumulated up to £1.3b after investors won a lawsuit for 62.5m euro. A week later Canary Wharf announced that they were able to purchase the property.

As of this moment, a Canary Wharf spokesman stated that there were not any plans for the site but that they are happy they were able to obtain it for a decent price.

There has not yet been an official statement regarding if the Group will stick to the original design of the area by Horden Cherry Lee, but it is anticipated that Canary Wharf Group will choose to alter the plan a little to provide better access between West India Ave. and the estate.

Chief Executive of the Group, George Iacboescu, stated that after 2011 there will be a lack of prime office space in Central London which will make sites such as One Park Place very desirable to future tenants.

The number of rental deals for office spaces in Birmingham has drastically reduced due to the economic meltdown. According to the team at Jones Lang LaSalle, this situation might get worse in the coming year.

The lettings of office will be only due to the general trends in the market like the expiration of existing leases, changes in the rentals and break options.

The city centre in Birmingham is expected to have around three million square feet of office space in the next couple of years. However, not many deals would happen for this space, as the existing occupants would, most probably, decrease the office space that they have taken for rent instead of expanding further. They are likely to bargain for better deals in other areas or look for extending the lease at a lower rent. Many companies are now trying to maximise office space by the provision of desk space to rent and shared office space, this is reflected by the increase in hits on websites such as Desk Space Genie.

Jonathan Fear, the head of the National Office Agency Team in Birmingham, said that more than 40,000 sq. ft. of the available office space in the Birmingham city centre is presently rented out. Further, it is expected that there will be a reduction in the number of employees by the business that are established in the city centre as they are deliberating over decreasing the strength of the workforce in the coming months.

The majority of the occupiers in Birmingham city centre have not engaged with the controversy of grey space. However, it is apparent that many tenants wish to decrease the office space rented by them. The trend might reverse in some time, but currently the demand is clearly not there.

Hammerson Plc, a real estate company in the UK foresees a halt in the negative market trend of the past two years. The company, which owns shares in two of UK’s important business locations, the Bishops Square Complex and the Bull Ring Mall in Birmingham, is quite optimistic about the future of the market.

John Richards, the Chief Executive Officer, feels that the property rates have almost stopped decreasing. Moreover, the rental income should also start stabilising quite soon. All this will come as a huge relief for the real estate companies, which have been struggling for survival throughout the recession.

Mr Richards also stated in an interview that they are expecting a drastic fall in vacancy rates across the country, along with the number of defaults.

Ever since the UK real estate market touched its highest point in 2007, there has been a severe fall in the property rates by about 44%. Unemployment, credit squeeze and the overall economic slowdown has been seen as the main reason for the downfall in the property rates. However, last month saw the lowest fall in the recent times with a 1.6% decrease and a small rise in office rentals and demand for shared office space.

Hammerson Plc was the first of the four major real estate companies to have gone to the market to raise money in order to make good their bank loans. By December, the company had lost almost 5 billion pounds in asset value due to the market crisis.

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You need to have a website to promote, you need good quality and unique content, and your site must fall within the search engine guidelines for content, i.e. content that doesn’t offend anyone or carry pornography.

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If you’ve never heard the term “link Juice” before then you probably haven’t been diving into the world of seo marketing.

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If wrinkles and lines are a concern to you, this skin care kit
might be what you need to stop the aging process before it fully
starts.

It was our pleasure to try the sample, travel size kit available
from The Diaper Lady. This kit is part of her Paraben-Free
Product line. The package was shipped first class, and arrived
safe and sound. Business cards were included, and the samples
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included for purchasing additional, full size items.

This item was reviewed by my mother, who noted how well the
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Included in the travel kit were the following items:

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Having never used an item like this before, it was an
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Details on all the products offered from The Diaper Lady can be
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

J.G. Wentworth Analysis:

Retirement Planning May Drive the Decision to Buy Annuities, But
Estate Planning and Inheritances Drive Many to Sell

The annuity’s inherent illiquidity complicates financial
planning

Bryn Mawr, PA, February 21, 2006 - Estate planning and the need
to deal with inherited assets are among the top five reasons
consumers sell their annuities, according to customer data
compiled by J.G. Wentworth, a leader in the secondary
market for annuities.

“It’s ironic that a tool many people use to prepare for
retirement can often complicate their estate planning and wealth
transfer needs,” said Michael B. Vaughan, managing director of
the J.G. Wentworth Annuity Purchase Program. “And once an
annuity becomes an inherited asset, it poses unique tax problems
for the beneficiary. Annuity holders are increasingly aware of
those facts, as 29% of the inquiries we received over the last
12 months came from investors in those two categories, while
actual fundings of purchased annuities in those categories rose
to 41%.”

Vaughan noted that changing needs - whether personal
circumstances or financial/investment goals - account for most
of the rest, while “buyer’s remorse” came to a surprisingly high
14% of inquiries and 12% of fundings.

With more than $1.6 trillion of assets backing annuities in the
U.S. alone, annuities have become a major personal finance tool
for consumers looking to lower their tax profile and plan for
retirement. Despite the enormous success and size of the annuity
market in the U.S., however, J.G. Wentworth estimates that 5-10%
of annuity holders would consider selling all or part of their
annuities under the right circumstances.

“The common denominator in every sale of an existing annuity by
its owner is a simple need for liquidity,” Vaughan added.
“Unfortunately, given the way that life insurance companies
construct most annuities, liquidity is often difficult to
obtain.”

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